roses

Despite the rainy weather we have had for weeks now, the roses do very well in the garden.
Last week, when I took pictures of the gardenhouse, I took some pictures of the roses too (in the half hour we actually had a bit of sunshine).
Here the roses "Nostalgie" and "The Prince" next to eachother.

The "Nostalgie" came last year, as Frank liked it, a two-colored rose, cream-white inside and red on the outside, with a sweet fragrance: "The Prince" stood for some years in my garden in Rotterdam and I took it when we moved to Lelystad. The first years here it did not bloom much, but I adored and cherished every flower it had.
It is a David Austin rose, purple-red with a special spicey scent. It is not an easy rose to grow, it wants attention, fertilizer and a moist ground. I think that he liked the exceptional sunny months of April and May this year, I have never seen it flowering for such a long time.

Villa Ari

After a very wet July, last week we finally had some dry days, so Marcel c.s. painted the gardenhouse. The colors will be the same as our house: "Boerencrème" (Farmers cream) and "Zaans groen" (Zaans green, Zaandam is a Dutch city, in the old city many houses originally were painted green...). The cream is done now, and again we are waiting for dry weather... so the rest can be done.

Last month my thyroid values (free T4 and TSH) were finally okay. Sadly I still feel way too tired... So I went back to my GP, who ordered bloodtests again. Thursday they draw some blood and next week I will hear the results...

birthday A-litter

Today is Noes' 13th birthday (Xin-Feng's Anouska).And Angels 13yh birthday too!As far as we know these are the last two remaining from our first litter.

Congratulations Angel and Noes!

Villa Ari

Villa Ari (de gardenhouse) is nearly finished, the primer is on, it is furnished, now it must be painted in the same colors as our house. But the weather has been bad for painting lately.

Why it is called "villa Ari"?
look ;-)

Ari's birthday

I almost forgot, I am so bad with birthdays... today our little, happy Peke has his birthday!!
Congratulations little man, also to your litter sister Sacha and your litter brother!

Chimay and Ari

Last week Chimay and Ari played together in the garden after our morning walk. It is fun to watch, but hard to get a picture... I tried a few times, but each time when I got back in the garden with my camera, they had stopped playing.
Today I was inside when they started, so I grabbed the camera, went outside and was fast enough to take two pictures:When Chimay starts running through the garden, you have to watch out, don't stand in her way, because she will run right through! Ari knows, so he let her pass.Chimay thought two pictures was enough, I was happy that both were good ;-)

Then I took some close-ups of Ari:A lot of hair with the wind blowing through.